Formal classes for week five will start at Unitech today in what is supposed to be the ninth week of the academic year.

This will see students engaging in make-up classes and if possible nine classes for some while the mid semester break and semester break will not be observed.

Last Friday saw the university return to normal life after four weeks of boycott resulting in the annual graduation normally held in March being deferred.

SRC president Eddie Nagual says the next step now for the students is ensure recommendations of the Sevua Inquiry are published publicly and those involved in the former council face the full force of the law.

“We will push for those people to go behind bars because I feel the next president might not have the same student support and we want to complete it all before our term is up,” says Nagual.

“We are looking forward to the graduation of the students because we want the institution to run. The graduation will go ahead; I think we’ve saved the academic year so graduation will definitely go ahead but the date has been postponed,” says Minister for Higher Education Delilah Gore.

Gore says legal issues with threats from Dr Ralph Saulep to challenge the court decisions on Dr Schram’s return will be worked on by the government counsel.

“Let the school go ahead, we want the institution to go ahead with classes,” says Gore.

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Committed to making a real difference by leading positive change in higher education.

For over 10 years
from 1993-2004, I worked in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
in the field of environmental and sustainable development policy, and
environmental economics. My research interest is the role of technology and private business in the development of countries.

As an academic I have 17 peer review publications in various humanities and social sciences disciplines, supervised 5 PhD students and 18 Masters thesis.

As a consultant I worked as head of the environmental
studies department of SIDE, S.A. a consultancy company with
office in Mexico City, San José, and Lima I worked closely together
with many government organizations and private companies. For the World Bank’s Economic Development Institute I carried out two regional studies on sustainable development policies. For the European Commission I wrote one report on corporate social responsiblity, and one on the green economy for the European External Action Service.

Currently, I am Vice-Chancellor or Chief Executive Officer of the Papua New Guinea University of Papua New Guinea, in Lae.